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The only important thing about a DAC is power isolation. You don't want to hear the coil whine of your CPU/GPU through your headphones. Thankfully most motherb
by thomastjeffery 3y ago
The only important thing about a DAC is power isolation. You don't want to hear the coil whine of your CPU/GPU through your headphones.
Thankfully most motherboard manufacturers have this figured out well enough that noisy audio jacks are a thing of the past.
- Night_Thastus 3y agoI had a (in hindsight) hilarious issue with this at one point. I have a big GPU. Big GPU makes noise. That noise goes through the PCIe connector and into the motherboard. It then made it to the ethernet port. It went through my ethernet port to my ethernet switch, which then made it to the Raspberry Pi I was using for streaming, which went into my DAC, AMP and finally speakers. It was because I was using shielded twisted pair, which connects the ground plane. Power isolation is an insidious problem!